Re: [GNC] Setting up Gnucash for Household

2020-01-06 Thread Malcolm Fitzgerald
Hi David, Thanks for providing a clear explanation of the options, it was very helpful for me. Malcolm > On 6/01/2020, at 9:32 PM, David Cousens wrote: > > Malcolm, > > As others have said you really need professional advice. It will depend upon > your local legislation and how your business

Re: [GNC] Setting up Gnucash for Household

2020-01-06 Thread Richard Dawson
I'm not an accountant by any means, so this might be bad advice. I will tell you how I handle my personal and business accounts in one Gnucash file.  I have the usual set of accounts, Equity, Assets, Cash, Income, Liabilities, and Opening Balance for my personal accounts.  These have the usual

Re: [GNC] Setting up Gnucash for Household

2020-01-06 Thread David Cousens
Malcolm, As others have said you really need professional advice. It will depend upon your local legislation and how your business affairs are structured whether you need to maintain separate books for your business activities or not. What follows is an attempt to outline how GnuCash might be used

Re: [GNC] Setting up Gnucash for Household

2020-01-05 Thread David Carlson
Malcolm, If you're intent is to keep detailed tax records for your business, it is probably better to keep those in separate files. Ask your accountant about that. For casual personal purposes, including managing bank account balances to avoid overdraft s, it would be easier to have one data

Re: [GNC] Setting up Gnucash for Household

2020-01-05 Thread Adrien Monteleone
You should speak to a local CPA concerning how to arrange your books. Depending on your situation, you might be able to lump everything together, but you might have to split your two businesses and personal finances, or you might have to split everything. This question is more aligned with acco

[GNC] Setting up Gnucash for Household

2020-01-05 Thread gnucash--- via gnucash-user
I want to use gnucash for tracking income and spending for my wife and I. I'd like some rudimentary advice on setting up gnucash. Our bank allows us to set up sub-accounts, so we have ended up with four accounts: a cheque account which is used by both of us for day to day expenses; a "web savi